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Real soil conservation and a national land-use and flood-prevention program run with the States and 'out of politics' — Alf Landon, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.68	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Planned use of land and retirement of marginal farmland	A national policy of planned land use — economic soil survey and retirement of marginal farmland
0.66	1936	Alf Landon	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Cash benefits on the domestically consumed portion of export crops to make the tariff effective, limited to the family-type farm; no scarcity program, no processing tax
0.63	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Raise staple farm prices by a tariff-equivalent benefit plus voluntary production control, at no cost to the Treasury
0.63	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization
0.61	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Flood control and river-basin development	Continue drought and flood aid and a nation-wide flood-control and water-conservation policy
0.60	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Crop insurance and storage reserves	Crop insurance and a stable food supply
0.59	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Restore purchasing power to the farming half of the nation
0.58	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reforestation and land policy	Employ a million men reforesting marginal and abandoned land
0.58	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	Expand self-sustaining public works and temporary federal work (forests, flood control, waterways), with advance planning
0.57	1936	Alf Landon	Flood control and river-basin development	Federal construction of head-water storage basins to prevent floods, with the consent of the States concerned
0.56	1932	Herbert Hoover	Planned use of land and retirement of marginal farmland	Support a sound program to divert land from unprofitable to profitable use
0.56	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Continue soil conservation and domestic allotment payments; end ruinous surpluses; commodity loans on seasonal surpluses
0.56	1932	Norman Thomas	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government aid to farmers and small home-owners against foreclosure and tax sales; moratorium on interest debated
0.55	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	Consolidate the seven federal farm-mortgage agencies under a single purpose
0.53	1932	Herbert Hoover	International economic and monetary conferences	A world economic conference on monetary stabilization and trade, with an agricultural representative
0.53	1932	Norman Thomas	Public ownership of major industries	Transfer the principal industries — banking, natural resources, utilities — to social ownership by compensation, not confiscation
0.53	1932	Norman Thomas	Public works as employment policy	A $5 billion federal public-works program — roads, reforestation, slum clearance, workers' housing — and idle factories and land turned over to the unemployed
0.53	1936	Alf Landon	Tariff levels	Protect the farmer against imports of livestock, dairy and farm products; keep non-competing goods on the free list
0.53	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	Reorganize and enlarge the Federal Land Banks to refinance farm mortgages; curb Joint Stock Land Bank abuses
0.52	1932	Herbert Hoover	Short-term and marketing credit for agriculture	Restore short-term farm credit through the new agricultural credit corporations, RFC loans to processors and financing of export sales
0.52	1936	Alf Landon	On-farm storage, warehouse receipts and commodity credit	Amend the warehousing act so grain stored on the farm earns a federal warehouse receipt and bank credit
0.51	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products
0.51	1936	Alf Landon	Drought and disaster relief for farmers	Pay every outstanding AAA check and continue drought relief checks and seed loans
0.51	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole
0.50	1932	Herbert Hoover	Local government consolidation and the tax burden on land	A national review of federal-state-local taxation to relieve farms and homes of property taxes